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thehefnerFirst of all, everyone with even a slight interest in movies and fans of SOUTH PARK need to check out YOUR STUDIO AND YOU. No, I mean, seriously. Go now.
Honestly, the less you know about it just watching it, the more delightful and surprising it is. But if you still are thinking about not watching it, let me explain why this is awesome:
The short version, according to the wikipedia article, explains as such: Your Studio and You is a comedy short film created in 1996 by Matt Stone and Trey Parker and commissioned by comedic filmmaker David Zucker. It was to be played at a party Seagram threw for its employees acquired as a result of its Universal Studios take-over. It parodies the style of 1950s educational films such as Duck and Cover, while poking fun at Universal and its talent. It was shot in the Universal Studios backlot, and it runs approximately fourteen minutes.
Upon commissioning the duo to make this film, David Zucker failed to mention that there was no script, so everything was written by Parker and Stone less than an hour before it was shot. The two were up for six and a half days straight filming, the longest they had ever gone without sleeping.
The film is notable in that it was Stone and Parker's first Hollywood gig. Parker has said that "you could probably make a feature film out of the experience of making that movie because it was just two dudes from college suddenly directing Steven Spielberg." This film has still seen no public release as it was intended to be strictly an internal film (indeed, its creators were not even allowed a copy), but copies of the film have surfaced on the internet. Ifilm.com had the video on its site for a limited time. The video was promoted on the site in ad banners. These advertisements included the date that ifilm.com would stop hosting the video.
So yeah. Seriously. Go watch now.
So there's this blog called Project Rooftop, which invites artists to redesign superhero costumes. It's a neat blog; the ideas and designs run the gamut of awesome to neat-but-unnecessary to lame, but it's always interesting (my favorite still might be Fire and Ice).
Anyhoo, they held a contest for this past Halloween for people actually doing their own redesign of a superhero costume. You send in photos of you or whoever in costume and the winner gets their design drawn by one of the site's head artists, or something.
Well, they finally released the winning results today!
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bloo_mountain, babe? We rock. We utterly, totally rock. Too bad we couldn't have a drawing of us together, but hey, fuck yes nonetheless.
Although, I have to say, the winning Nightcrawler entry seems a little... bland and lazy to me (says the guy who forgot to pull up his sagging cummerbund and tighten my frickin' crevat). But that Green Lantern that beat us is awesome. I really, really dig the hell outta that. I wouldn't even mind seeing that in the comics, or a spiffier version for a GL film. I mean, so long as it's Hal, of course.
So yeah. Rawk. Bloo, one way or another, we have GOT to find an excuse to dress up like this again and work out the kinks.
Honestly, the less you know about it just watching it, the more delightful and surprising it is. But if you still are thinking about not watching it, let me explain why this is awesome:
The short version, according to the wikipedia article, explains as such: Your Studio and You is a comedy short film created in 1996 by Matt Stone and Trey Parker and commissioned by comedic filmmaker David Zucker. It was to be played at a party Seagram threw for its employees acquired as a result of its Universal Studios take-over. It parodies the style of 1950s educational films such as Duck and Cover, while poking fun at Universal and its talent. It was shot in the Universal Studios backlot, and it runs approximately fourteen minutes.
Upon commissioning the duo to make this film, David Zucker failed to mention that there was no script, so everything was written by Parker and Stone less than an hour before it was shot. The two were up for six and a half days straight filming, the longest they had ever gone without sleeping.
The film is notable in that it was Stone and Parker's first Hollywood gig. Parker has said that "you could probably make a feature film out of the experience of making that movie because it was just two dudes from college suddenly directing Steven Spielberg." This film has still seen no public release as it was intended to be strictly an internal film (indeed, its creators were not even allowed a copy), but copies of the film have surfaced on the internet. Ifilm.com had the video on its site for a limited time. The video was promoted on the site in ad banners. These advertisements included the date that ifilm.com would stop hosting the video.
So yeah. Seriously. Go watch now.
So there's this blog called Project Rooftop, which invites artists to redesign superhero costumes. It's a neat blog; the ideas and designs run the gamut of awesome to neat-but-unnecessary to lame, but it's always interesting (my favorite still might be Fire and Ice).
Anyhoo, they held a contest for this past Halloween for people actually doing their own redesign of a superhero costume. You send in photos of you or whoever in costume and the winner gets their design drawn by one of the site's head artists, or something.
Well, they finally released the winning results today!
bloo_mountain, babe? We rock. We utterly, totally rock. Too bad we couldn't have a drawing of us together, but hey, fuck yes nonetheless.Although, I have to say, the winning Nightcrawler entry seems a little... bland and lazy to me (says the guy who forgot to pull up his sagging cummerbund and tighten my frickin' crevat). But that Green Lantern that beat us is awesome. I really, really dig the hell outta that. I wouldn't even mind seeing that in the comics, or a spiffier version for a GL film. I mean, so long as it's Hal, of course.
So yeah. Rawk. Bloo, one way or another, we have GOT to find an excuse to dress up like this again and work out the kinks.
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Date: 2006-12-12 10:06 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2006-12-12 10:10 pm (UTC)ME! *gloats*
I'm sorry, but "work out the kinks" sounds rilly, rilly dirty.
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Date: 2006-12-13 12:45 am (UTC)Wow, we are so cool! Hooray!
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Date: 2006-12-13 12:57 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2006-12-13 01:34 am (UTC)For, um, research purposes. Yeah.
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Date: 2006-12-13 02:35 am (UTC)I'm gonna try to keep Nerd Prom (aka San Diego ComicCon) in mind for this year. I've never been, and that'd be the perfect place to go in costume again! And this time, we could do it BETTER!
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Date: 2006-12-14 06:41 pm (UTC)they really looked great. i had to go make out with Heffie in the back room, he looked that hot.
and now, having made that joke, i have to go and wash my brain out with bleach.